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Twitter post by @DirtyTesLa: Thankful to have Cybertruck to help me with the real work and big loads 🙏 (image of Cybertruck with several bags of soil in the trunk)
Reply by @KralikLj: Hell boy that would fit in a bicycle. Way more carbon free than that wankpanzer. (image of cargo bicycle with several bags of soil strapped to the front)
- TheAlbatross ( @TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 116•8 months ago
One’s gotta feel so goofy bragging about their truck hauling a load that would fit in most any compact sedan
- noyou ( @noyou@lemm.ee ) 34•8 months ago
I mean that easily fits in my compact hatchback
- Venator ( @Venator@lemmy.nz ) 19•8 months ago
Hatchbacks generally fit things like that more easily than sedans.
- Hugh_Jeggs ( @Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee ) 20•8 months ago
Bragging
*Advertising
Look at the username, and the platform
Why the fuck do people use that site?!?
- Cruxifux ( @Cruxifux@feddit.nl ) 15•8 months ago
That would fit in my wife’s fucking Camry man
- cooljacob204 ( @cooljacob204@kbin.social ) 10•8 months ago
I have walked more home in a cheap wagon.
- Rooskie91 ( @Rooskie91@discuss.online ) 7•8 months ago
It’s people committed to their egos unwilling to admit they purchased a dud from a con man.
- nilloc ( @nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de ) English1•7 months ago
I wanna know how much the first owner committed enough to chop off the fingers on their non-dominant hand gets in the lawsuit.
Really though, the NTSB and which ever other regulatory agencies can, should outlaw vehicles with this type of design (brodozer grills in-fucking-cluded).
Let the first batch become collectors items, but fucking stop them from making more super needlessly dangerous road weapons.
- steal_your_face ( @steal_your_face@lemmy.ml ) English2•8 months ago
It’s a troll account
- Arthur ( @Arthur@literature.cafe ) 5•8 months ago
It’s not a troll account. https://youtube.com/@DirtyTesla
- steal_your_face ( @steal_your_face@lemmy.ml ) English4•8 months ago
Maybe it was a troll post then. Someone I follow retweeted the post and the guy came into the thread showing it was a joke. He probably got tons of engagement from it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Arthur ( @Arthur@literature.cafe ) 11•8 months ago
Ah the classic “oh it was just a joke” strat.
- Tippon ( @Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English56•8 months ago
I appreciate what Len’s going for, but showing a Cybertruck with a load that would fit in a normal car, and ‘owning’ it by showing a bike carrying what appears to be half as much, is only going to give ammo to the dipshits with their massively oversized trucks.
‘Hey, bro! My Ford SuperMacho DonkeyDong Pavement Princess edition would fit the load from the Cybertruck and the load from the cargo bike. I could throw the bike on top too!’
Reframing it as ‘the Cybertruck’s so shitty that half the load will fit on a bike with no issues, and you don’t have to be seen driving a Cybertruck’ would probably work better 👍
- Skua ( @Skua@kbin.social ) 16•8 months ago
The packages on the bike look far longer, it’s quite possible that it actually is the same load
- Tippon ( @Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English5•8 months ago
They do look bigger, but it seems like the pink section is bigger, and the rest is the same size as the bags in the truck, making the bike’s cargo of four bags equivalent to about five of the truck’s bags.
That’s just a guess from a bad photo though.
- Skua ( @Skua@kbin.social ) 36•8 months ago
My curiosity has been piqued, so here are the actual numbers:
- Cargo bike: 4 x 50 L = 200 L
- Cybertruck: 8 x 0.75 cubic feet = 170 L
There’s actually more on the bike. I love this post even more now
- lemmyreader ( @lemmyreader@lemmy.ml ) English11•8 months ago
Unbelievable, and nice!
- Tippon ( @Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English9•8 months ago
Oh, wow! Sometimes it feels nice to be wrong 😁
- nednobbins ( @nednobbins@lemm.ee ) 3•8 months ago
A liter of potting soil is roughly a kilo. Very few people will be able to move a bike with 200kilos on it unless the ground is perfectly even.
There are plenty of vehicles that are better for moving around that much mass than a Cybertruck is but a bike isn’t really one of them.
- barsoap ( @barsoap@lemm.ee ) 5•8 months ago
It’s a cargo bike: Low centre of gravity, adequate transmission for hauling heavy loads uphill, moving it isn’t the issue. You should be more worried about the actual load capacity: A good cargo bike, as in two wheels not four or a trailer configuration or something, usually maxes out at ~150kg load (including driver). Trikes about 250kg, quads or trikes with trailer at 500kg.
But then a kg of soil weighs more like 400g so we’re talking more like 80kg. Including driver you might be exceeding load capacity, but not by much (assuming obese people don’t ride bikes which I think is a fair assumption) it’s probably going to survive, especially if you’re careful around kerbstones and stuff. Those load limits are all calculated off some maximum drop distance, if you don’t drop your wheels then you can generally go much higher. The frame is very unlikely to break or bend, the axles would probably be the first to fail.
- nednobbins ( @nednobbins@lemm.ee ) 1•8 months ago
It looks like these bikes are 100% human powered. That’s the part I’m worried about.
I’m starting to get kind of old but I know how to ride a bike and I’m in pretty decent shape. In nice weather I ride for several miles at a time with my kids. I could move a heavily loaded bike for short distances but if I’m doing regular transportation with that for hours at a time I can forget about my knees.
- barsoap ( @barsoap@lemm.ee ) 1•8 months ago
The usual distances for these kinds of bikes are a couple of km max, once or twice a week. Big shopping trip if you’re living on the outskirts kind of deal, or smaller shopping trip and the kid rides in the cargo bucket. If you’re up for it sure you can also tour them, tent and sleeping bags don’t tend to weigh much and there’s ample of space.
Bikes for parcel deliveries etc. tend to be quads or trailer-trikes, also, electric. Noone is running a landscaping business with one of those bikes that still is, and probably always will be, a VW transporter with flatbed kind of deal.
- Skua ( @Skua@kbin.social ) 3•8 months ago
Are you sure about that weight? I can’t say I’ve used a lot of potting soil in my life, but the first google results for it that have weights listed for the bag are all more like quarter to a third of a kilo per litre. That puts the weight of the load at less than 70kg, which is much more reasonable
- nednobbins ( @nednobbins@lemm.ee ) 5•8 months ago
I’m not sure at all. It’s just the first number I found online. Since a liter of water is a kilo it seemed reasonable to accept a liter of soil being a similar mass.
But shoot. I just went downstairs and checked the bags of soil we recently bought. 44 liters and 16 kilos. That’s about 0.36 kilos per liter, so you’re correct.
That said, when I had 4 of those sitting in the back of a Subaru hatchback you can definitely feel the accelerator get mushy. It probably wouldn’t be terrible to carry that much weight for short distances occasionally. Regularly riding long distances on less than perfect roads with that much load sounds pretty painful.
- melpomenesclevage ( @melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee ) 8•8 months ago
The bags on the bike are bigger, i think. I think that is in fact the same load, or close to it.
- Tippon ( @Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English2•8 months ago
They are. If you look at the comments here, skua got the higher quality images and worked out the details:
https://kbin.social/m/fuckcars@lemmy.ca/t/955361/-/comment/6141707
- Gnome Kat ( @GnomeKat@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English4•8 months ago
There are already posts in this thread basically doing that…
- Lekip ( @Lekip@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 36•8 months ago
I think I’m going to refer to pick ups and SUVs exclusively as “wankpanzers” from now on
- PlantPowerPhysicist ( @PlantPowerPhysicist@discuss.tchncs.de ) 26•8 months ago
Funny seeing this, I just got back from taking 40L of planting soil home in the back of my (non-cargo) bike. It’s doable, for sure.
- smileyhead ( @smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de ) 15•8 months ago
Thankful to have Cybertruck
Isn’t that the most basic feature of a car?
Reminds me of the people thankful for Facebook so they can talk to friends, when what enabled that really was the Internet and Facebook just created an app incompatible with any existing messaging standard. - Squirrel ( @Squirrel@thelemmy.club ) English12•8 months ago
I’m in the unfortunate position of not living in a place to practically use that bicycle, and being unable to afford a cybertruck. I wouldn’t buy one, even if I could afford it, but I’d like to be in that position.
- stebo ( @stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 3•8 months ago
tbh such kind of bicycle will hardly be practical anywhere
- png ( @png@discuss.tchncs.de ) 4•8 months ago
I see them around here (Germany) and they seem quite practical, although ones with 3 or more wheels are most popular here. Especially for such heavy loads.
- Che Banana ( @The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org ) 1•8 months ago
Not a custom job so there must be demand for it, therefore it must be practical somewhere.
For me, personally, I prefer pulling a cart instead of pushing with all the weight on your handlebars\turning.
- BarqsHasBite ( @someguy3@lemmy.ca ) English11•8 months ago
That’s a big load? That‽ That’ll fit into any car.
- Responsabilidade ( @BaalInvoker@lemmy.eco.br ) 11•8 months ago
Well, I guess that some people just like to put big loads on their back and post it on the internet… Who am I to judge…
- Chuymatt ( @Chuymatt@beehaw.org ) 2•8 months ago
Are we still doing ‘Phrasing?’
- Noxy ( @noxy@yiffit.net ) English11•8 months ago
my wagon can definitely carry that, without the risk of slicing off pedestrians’ faces in an accident, too.
- N_Crow ( @N_Crow@leminal.space ) English9•8 months ago
Can we just officially call it the Wankpanzer? That’s too good.
- 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️ ( @Kolanaki@yiffit.net ) English9•8 months ago
I saw one IRL the other day and it was way bigger than I thought based on pictures. This shows how shitty the trunk on it is. Whole car was bigger than an Escalade, but this is all that trunk can fit. What a hunk o shit.
- MxM111 ( @MxM111@kbin.social ) 4•8 months ago
That’s one ugly sybertruck of bicycles
- FfaerieOxide ( @FfaerieOxide@kbin.social ) 1•8 months ago
The only big loads a cyber truck helps a person with are Andy’s.